Ways to Transfer Spotify Music to USB for Making it Playable on Car

Q:"I'd like to play my beloved Spotify music on my car, but I'm failed. Some of you may know the reason. That's it—DRM protection. Can I download music from Spotify to a USB, then? Anyone could help me out? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks ahead."

This is a common sense for almost all that Spotify is a top music streaming platform in the dominant position of digital music service in the world. The latest music can be found on Spotify and you can even listen to them for free. However, when you are intended to download Spotify music to USB in order to play it on the car, you should be aware that only Spotify paid subscribers have access to download and the DRM protection of Spotify music will hinder you to copy music from Spotify to USB. For the sake of enjoying Spotify music on the car, some software on how to download music from Spotify to USB stick emerges and takes an important role. Here in this article I'd like to take some for example to save Spotify songs to USB and help you out.

Part 1: Spotify app and why we can't directly transfer Spotify music to USB

Spotify is a famous digital music service that gives you access to more than 40 million songs from almost 78 countries and regions in the world. Available in most of Europe, most of the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa and Asia, Spotify users can even create, edit, and share playlists and tracks on social media, and make playlists with other users all around the world. That’s amazing since it had 191 million monthly active users and 87 million paying users. Even comparing Spotify vs. Google Play Music, Spotify would be completely the more popular music streaming service right now. Besides, no matter for free users or premium paid users, Spotify App is available for most modern devices, including Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, iOS, Windows Phone and Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Amazon Fire TV devices, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One home consoles and more.

Nonetheless, Spotify Free or Spotify Premium users are not allowed to download Spotify music to USB drive because Spotify files are copyrighted by Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection, which prevents you from transferring Spotify to Amazon music or USB or any other devices directly. Then, can you download from Spotify to USB in another way? The answer is yes only if you use some professional and powerful software to remove the DRM and convert Spotify music to DRM-free MP3 music files. 

Part 2: Use Prof. DRM to download the Spotify music to save as DRM-free music

Getting to know how to transfer music from Spotify to USB, you should know how to remove the DRM from Spotify music at the beginning. You are lucky dog that there is indeed effective software that can work for it, that’s Leawo Prof. DRM which is a top-notch DRM removal and audio converter program designed for iTunes, Spotify and more other DRM inserted service. And then you can transfer Spotify music to iPod or USB or any other devices or service. Except 50X faster to remove intrusive DRM on Spotify music files, Prof. DRM can totally keep the original quality of the music while removing the DRM and making music conversion. Moreover, it also makes Dolby 5.1 surround sound audio tracks and subtitles selectable for playing on any device. In order to download Spotify playlist to USB without any quality loss, you can download and install Prof. DRM and follow the simple guide below.

As a professional DRM removal and Spotify music downloader software program, Leawo Prof. DRM could help you remove the DRM protection upon Spotify songs, albums and playlist, and then download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, etc. for your MP3 players in batch. This Spotify music converter also enables you to adjust audio channel, bit rate, and sample rate for a better music quality output and offline Spotify music listening on your mobile devices.

Step 1. Launch Spotify and play your favorite songs smoothly

If you are using Spotify App on your PC, launch it to play your favorite songs for enjoying and preparing.

Step 2. Import Spotify playlist to the program

Start Prof. DRM and enter the main interface, you will see a Spotify icon on the sub-menu bar. Click on it and Spotify songs, albums and playlists will be imported to the program. Or you can also drag and drop your favorite songs or playlists to the program directly.

Notice: If you are Spotify web user rather than app user, you can also import Spotify music to Prof. DRM by simply copying and pasting the music link here.

Step 3. Choose output format

Select one music file and click on edit icon to pop up a panel where you can choose MP3 as the output format, select proper Channel, Bite Rate and Sample rate for the output Spotify music. And then check the option of "Apply to all" to make the settings for all the imported songs here.

Step 4. Save Spotify Music to USB

Insert the USB flash drive to your computer. And then go to the bottom of the interface and click the "…" button to choose the output directory for saving the Spotify music.

Step 5. Start to Remove DRM and convert Spotify music to MP3

After all settings done, hit the blue "Convert" button at the bottom to start removing DRM from Spotify songs and convert them to MP3 files. After a while, the removal and conversion process will be completed, and you would have downloaded the DRM free Spotify music on your PC. And you can freely play the music at any time on any devices.

Part 3: Use Leawo music recorder to record as DRM-free music

Except for using Leawo Prof. DRM to remove DRM and convert Spotify music, you also have access to record Spotify songs as DRM-free music. And Leawo offers you Music Recorder to simply help you download Spotify music to USB in even easier steps. Leawo Music Recorder is an amazing and easy-to-use music recording software program for you to record music free from any built-in input audio, computer audio and online music sources, like YouTube, Spotify, AOL Music, Last.fm, etc. and then save in MP3 or WAV format with original quality reserved and no DRM protection any more. Now follow the guide below to record Spotify music and then know how to copy music from Spotify to USB.

Step 1. Launch Leawo Music Recorder

Start the audio recorder to enter the main interface of recording software. Click on "Audio Source" icon on the main interface to select "Record Computer Audio" as audio source firstly, which is for recording online audio and streaming audio. If you are going to record audio from built-in input audio like Mic, you can click "Record Audio Input" option.

Step 2. Start Recording Spotify Music

Click the red "Start" button to begin recording. And then click to play Spotify music files right away. You are required to start the recording software before playing your Spotify songs to prevent any content loss. Besides, you can also take advantage of the Task Scheduler for perfectly recording the music with start time and duration settled. This function is especially designed to record FM radio audios, and it is quite useful for recording any audio files.

The Spotify music recorded will be saved automatically on your computer in default MP3 format. And now the DRM-free MP3 Spotify music can be easily downloaded and transferred to any devices. And on the next part, here comes the way on how to transfer music from Spotify to USB flash, which would be helpful for you.

Part 4: Transfer the DRM-free music to USB

Get to know how to transfer music from Spotify to USB stick? As Spotify songs have been saved in DRM free format, you can directly follow the sample steps here to download from Spotify to USB in seconds.

Step 1: Insert the USB drive on your computer.

Step 2: Open the output folder of Prof. DRM and select the converted music you want to copy. Or you can go to the output directory to find he DRM free music.

Step 3: Right-click on the Spotify music you selected, and then hit "Send to" and choose your USB drive as the destination.

Step 4: Spotify music files will be transferred to the USB flash drive in a while.

Is that simple? When you are asking yourself “can I download music from Spotify to a USB?”, you must have the positive answer now. After all, though there is DRM protection and downloading restrictions for Spotify premium or free users, Leawo Prof. DRM and Music Recorder can do a big favor to remove DRM as DRM removal software and help you download Spotify playlist to USB with some simple steps. Even if you are a newbie, you can be an expert on how to transfer music from Spotify to USB stick with the help of the excellent software and clear guidance mentioned above. And the way on how to play Spotify in car USB will be simple as well. All in all, you can choose Prof. DRM software mentioned here to be skilled at how to download songs from Spotify to USB. Or you can select Leawo Music Recorder to be good at how to put Spotify music on USB without any quality loss. To enjoy Spotify music on your car will never be a problem anymore.